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Dear Rick,

A rich class of models are the actor-oriented models. Addition of new
actors is not a central point here, however. Basic papers on
actor-oriented models that also include statistical inference are the
following:

Snijders, T.A.B., Stochastic actor-oriented dynamic network analysis.
Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 21 (1996), 149-172.

Snijders, Tom A.B. (2001). The statistical evaluation of social network
dynamics.
Pp. 361-395 in Sociological Methodology - 2001, edited by M.E. Sobel and
M.P. Becker. Boston and London: Basil Blackwell.

Snijders, Tom A.B. (2005). Models for Longitudinal Network Data.
Chapter 11 in P. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (Eds.), Models and
methods in social network analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Steglich, C.E.G., Snijders, T.A.B. and Pearson, M. (2004). Dynamic
Networks and Behavior: Separating Selection from Influence.
Submitted for publication.
http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/snijders/SSP_total.pdf

One paper in this domain is about composition change of the network:

Huisman, Mark, and Snijders, Tom A.B., (2003). Statistical analysis of
longitudinal network data with changing composition.
Sociological Methods & Research, 32, 253-287.

More information is at

http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/siena.html

Best wishes,

Tom Snijders



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> Is anyone aware of anything that has been written on social
> simulations of the growth of (social) networks over time through
> the addition of new actors and new linkages, under some common
> constraints. By social I mean involving a group of people in a
> workshop setting, rather than using agent based simulations via
> software. I am interested in finding out about the rules used, and
> possibly borrowing/ adapting them for use in a project planning
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